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Deserts That Dance In My Mind

Endless walks, nothing at all in sight;

Nothing and nobody in sight. My mind, still and

Oblivious to the external world, scorched and

Silent, walked, walked, walked on.

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People with pasts have memories to keep them warm

And others, have nothing more to say.

The mind, like a furnace, clings to the air

To burn, to burn, to burn bright.


There are deserts that dance in my mind

Strange, irreal and almost divine.

They beckon, they chase me from reason

As I circle in the vast nowhere, somewhere, everywhere.

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The Depth of Longing

On this steep slope that leads to a far-off frontier
There is nothing, not even a guide.

Intention, detention and retention
Freedom lies in blue skies

Where lies my destiny?
A thread unravlled here and there

And a restless, weary spirit travelling
Never resting, never unravelling

The skeins of that silken yarn
To match the depths of the longing
The longing of the single solitary star
Skimming is cosmic spaces, brilliant and bold
The long-lost memory of belonging

For a single instant to somebody somewhere sometime
In an epoch that vaunts the lack of belonging

To the depths of this longing.

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The Night, Glorious, Unbending

The night, glorious, unbending,
Takes and gives nothing away
The night, silent, refuses the alms offered by day

Day, loquacious, has questions and answers
But the night doesn't even ponder
Looks far ahead, yonder
Night silently turns away.

Day is curious about these silences
That stretch into infinity: silences that stretch
Until the pale dawn arises
Silences that from ages past and ages to come
Are the very inscrutable embodiment
Of what the night has become.
 
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The Teacher of All I Know

Here alone with all I profess
A faith, a belief in some systems of thought
Professors and priests, mystics and bards
All were often one I confess.

There were some unlettered men
Who knew more than the savants, then
There were bards who could sing and swear
And find their way to your heart there.

There were wild poppies dancing
Wild horses prancing
The teacher of all I know
Came for a few seasons
Then went for his own benighted reasons.

There was life’s blood and show
The poetry and pain and pageantry's stream
Whirled around in a fevered dream
Life was what it did not seem
Thus taught the teacher of all I know.
 
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